Hi my name is Julie Duriez and I head up Julie Duriez Wellness, formally known as Lavender Tree Therapies. 

It’s funny how life doesn’t always work out like you expect. During school I never anticipated that I would be working in healthcare, I was always a numbers girl and my heart was set on banking, accounting, maybe architecture.

But instead I got married at 18 to Paul and became a stay at home mum to our 3 children. At 33, with my youngest heading off to senior school I decided it was time for me to get a job. Time changes you and I no longer wanted numbers but rather something meaningful, a role that brought me into contact with people, a purpose.

And so I found myself training with Westcountry Ambulance Service, becoming an Emergency Medical Technician. Biology was my least favourite science at school but I found myself becoming fascinated with the body and what an incredible piece of engineering it is. But sadly after just 7 years my time was cut short thanks to a back injury but it left that acute interest in people and their wellness. 

It was holistic therapies and not allopathic medicine that aided my recovery and when in 2018 I was introduced to doTERRA essential oils I began a journey that has seen me become a Wellness Advocate with them, qualify as a reflexologist, an AromaTouch therapist and more recently a massage therapist.

My experiences with the essential oils further opened my mind to natural remedies and I have been learning and exploring how even things that grow in my garden, that I would previously have considered a weed, have therapeutic values.

I have also become deeply aware of the power within myself to affect my wellbeing leading me to delve into the realms of EFT, mindfulness, journaling and more.

I am passionate about helping people to learn to understand their body better, to help them to work with it not against it, to learn to heal it naturally. To help people to learn to take control of their own health and well-being.

Thank you for joining me on this journey.